Art Quote by Jasper Fforde

“I watched the people passing below, each of them a story, each story part of somebody else's, all of it connected to the big…

— Charles de Lint

“The whole island was stained in blood and haunted with the dead. Horror stories lay beneath every square foot of this awful place, and…

— John Dixon Phoenix Island

“Wooded islands foregrounded the mainland darkly.”

— Miranda Weiss

“We draw our lines around these moments of pain, and remain upon our islands, and they cannot hurt us. They are covered with a…

— Neil Gaiman

“There was nothing but a lonely magnificence of sea and islands”

— Margaret Craven

“Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction can be difficult, lonely job; it’s like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub. There’s plenty…

— Stephen King

“Can the potential isolation of living on an island of our own frame of reference be banished by simple concurrences that become the currency…

— Nora Bateson

“The beauty of fiction is it need not be factual and the writer's imagination can travel as far from reality as he or she…

— Sheldon Friedman

“William James wrote, “We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.”

— Wallace J. Nichols

“It is a still stranger thing that there is nothing so delightful in the world as telling stories. It is far pleasanter than writing…

— Virginia Woolf

Legitimately produced, and truly inspired, fiction interprets humanity, informs the understanding, and quickens the affections. It reflects ourselves, warns us against prevailing social follies,…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

“The sun, coming hard around the world: the island rises from the sea, sinks, rises, holds.”

— Peter Matthiessen